High-Level Project Summary
We merge science and art to be sure that all people will be able to understand difficult scientific information such as research. So, we made a magazine that facilitates one of NASA’s research projects which is (Role of clouds in climate). This magazine is attached to a Qr-Code link that represents an animation video that facilitates the research in animation, and we record this explanation to can be used for those who cannot see it. So, our focus in solving this problem is to make scientific information available to everyone, as both the video and the magazine will be available to many a range of ages and social groups.
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Detailed Project Description
we decided to do a magazine that shows texts and figures. they explain research in an easy way. the magazine will be available in paper and electronic. it will available on paper for adults and people who don't like electrons like phones. it will be available in electronics for people who like electronics.
there is a QR code in the magazine that explains research in whiteboard animation way for kids and people who don't like reading. the wight board animation way is easier than texts.
this way is so economic and available for all. any people can understand this research easily without problems. it will attract people to Nasa's research. I hope that it erased illiteracy.
the needed tools to develop our idea is by using better design apps in the magazine like Photoshop, InDesign, and illustrator. also using a "video scribe" to make the video, which will provide better tools and better illustration.
Space Agency Data
https://science.nasa.gov/get-involved/art-and-science
We used the resource of “Art and Science” to gain knowledge about prior solutions and form analytical objective thinking of their weaknesses and strengths of them.
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/
” NASA’s scientific visualization studio” gives information about NASA’s program through visualization, it’s a perfect method in facilitating information that we inspired in our magazine.
https://www.esa.int/About_Us/Art_Culture_in_Space
The “Art & Culture in Space” playlist was providing stories, videos, and images that are relating to our project’s idea.
https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1662/easy-crafts-from-nasa-make-your-own-exoplanets/
This resource has given us inspiration on how to facilitate ideas using crafts, as crafts mainly attract eyes to the subject, and we have connected this to our project using graphics just as the crafts
Hackathon Journey
we got a great experience with Nasa's hackathon. we learned more about Nasa. We learned to communicate with other people in Hackathon. we learned how we can have presentation skills.As students in STEM schools, we had a transition phase from the preparatory school to a STEM high school, and we know well how hard it is to read a research paper or understand a mission, so we could see that we would be close to normal people or even socio-economic and people with ethnic backgrounds.
We inspired our idea of the magazine linked with the QR code from the resources that were attached to NASA’s website in the resources section, we have seen the prior solutions and criticized the weakness and the strength points in every solution, and that made us collect a background idea until we found that we need to tell a story in a magazine that suits everybody with different educational levels, it should also be understandable and interesting to read and attract people to NASA’s brilliant research projects and missions.
Challenges are proof of the project’s success, some of the challenges that faced us were “how to deliver our idea in a simple way that reaches a variety of education?” and also how to create a video in the whiteboard animation, and what type of magazines should we use in our project, and the best language that facilitates the scientific ideas in a simple way.
Our great thanks are to NASA’s society that created the magnificent resources that guided us through our journey in making our project.
References
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/
https://www.esa.int/About_Us/Art_Culture_in_Space
https://science.nasa.gov/get-involved/art-and-science
https://www.biotecnika.org/2021/06/benefits-reading-research-papers-must-watch-scientists/
https://intellectualtakeout.org/2016/10/why-professors-are-writing-crap-that-nobody-reads/
https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1662/easy-crafts-from-nasa-make-your-own-exoplanets/
https://www.mos.org/leonardo/node/1
Tags
#art , #science